It's a privilege and an honor to share that @wederrakeep.bsky.social won Best Premise of an Actual Play at @njwebfest.bsky.social this weekend!

Want to join our 2026 programming? You have ONE MONTH to apply buff.ly/tyPNnjo Looking to showcase the best of the European TTRPG community via 🌠 actual plays 🌠 panels, interviews 🌠 variety of games (we're not excited by D&D) 🌠 diversity of GMs & casts (Europe-based POC applicants prioritised)

Yay! This is was a very cool email to get today! I'm super honored to be nominated for Best Game Master at T.O. Webfest, and to be included in Best Actual Play Podcast. I know only know a couple of the other shows, but I know for sure it's a very distinguished group. Amazing to be part of it.

We're deeply honored to be nominated for two awards from T.O. Webfest! ✨ Best Actual Play Podcast ✨ Best Game Master - @watermosaic.bsky.social Thank you T.O. Webfest and Webseries Canada for the nominations, and thank you to everyone who's enjoyed Act 1 of our story so far.

An absolutely incredible showing from EU Actual Play! It's such a gift to stand with these passionate, talented artists and be able to call so many of them friends!

In particular, we are so delighted to see so much EU and UK representation from our friends at @euphoriaap.bsky.social @tumblethrupod.bsky.social @damselsdnd.bsky.social and @wederrakeep.bsky.social The scene on our side of the pond is so incredible!

Well, this is a bit wild. We are so thoroughly astonished to be nominated for 4 awards at @njwebfest.bsky.social. Thank you, thank you, thank you! ✨Best Premise of an Actual Play ✨Best Overlay Design ✨Outstanding Drama ✨Best Ensemble Cast Huuuuge congratulations to our fellow nominees!

Honored to be on here next to some incredible sound designers! The Witches of Wederra Keep is my first time working with sound. I've learned so much about the craft and my own artistic sense. Extra deep thanks to Julian Hunold doing mixing and mastering, and Greve Studios where we recorded.

Outstanding Fantasy Actual Play (Podcast) - My First Dungeon: The Wildsea - Of Kith and Pen - The Book of War - The Corner of Pleasure & West River - The Storyteller Squad - The Witches of Wederra Keep - Twilight's Edge

Best Sound Design of an Actual Play - RPG For You and Me - Neon Heat - Bloom&Blight - My First Dungeon: The Wildsea - Quadrilateral: Frostfall - The Witches of Wederra Keep - The Storyteller Squad - Candela Obscura: What Lies in the Shadow? - Tales Yet Told: 2048 AM Voices in the Wood

Best Premise of an Actual Play - Agents of A.G.E.N.D. - Beneath the Surface - Bloom&Blight - Our Last Summer - Tales Yet Told: 2048 AM Voices in the Wood - The Ballad of the Silver Spectres - The Witches of Wederra Keep - Twice Rolled Tales: Last Train to Brooklyn

Best Player Character Performance in an Actual Play (Podcast) - The Storyteller Squad - RPG For You and Me - Neon Heat - My First Dungeon: The Wildsea - The Corner of Pleasure & West River - The Road to Hell - Twilight's Edge - Spirits and Monsters of Old Seattle - The Witches of Wederra Keep

Best Ensemble Cast of an Actual Play (Podcast) - Bloom&Blight - Dungeon Punks: Super U - Planet Arcana - Spirits and Monsters of Old Seattle - Tales Yet Told: 2048 AM Voices in the Wood - The All Night Society - The Book of War - The Witches of Wederra Keep

Thrilled and honored to be among such amazing company. Congratulations to all the nominees!

The Witches of Wederra Keep has received FIVE nominations at New Jersey Web Fest for AP & AP Podcasts: * Best Premise of an AP * Best Sound Design - @watermosaic.bsky.social * Outstanding Fantasy * Best Ensemble Cast * Best Character Performance - Sarah Purcell Thank you @njwebfest.bsky.social !

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This is very cool! Looking forward to what you put together!

Broken Sky is a game presented by an incredible cast of creatives both in front and behind the fiction. The following games were presented: - Reading the Ashes by @gamefiend.bsky.social - broken sanctum by @sebastianyue.bsky.social - Once, There Was by @loremistress93.bsky.social

🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: In many of the stories of the Archivist's shelves, good triumphs over evil. As they watch the curse progress across the land and, in disparate pockets, succeed or fail as brave witches step up to confront it, they know the real world is more varied. ::

We're looking for a few more European-based applicants, especially POC, for the Girl by Moonlight mecha game I'm running in September. Please consider it or pass it along! It's going to be a great game :)

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery Is it better to be free in body or mind? I can say remove the chains from my body, it might be easier. How much effort does it take to unbind the imagination?

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery @anninakaski.bsky.social Do you venture to assist my counterpart in escape? Good luck. The walls of their prison are built from power, their chains carry the crushing weight of expectation.

🧿 The sky is still breaking. A call to #BlueskyCoven (and that's you, if you so choose!): please brave the ice and claim her key.

I played 'broken sanctum,' a cool and unique game from @sebastianyue.bsky.social that leaves you with a beautiful collage-like illustration of your character. I played it as part of Broken Sky, as my cursed persona. Now the curse creeps forward 😬 Join in and play it - you can push the curse back!

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: Neither Archmage Meridian nor her imperfect copy notices the cursed witch squeezing into the corners of their sanctum. The clock stutters, falling out of time as the curse begins to cast Meridian's spell for itself. :: i. The curse breathes. 1/

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: A new page arrives, folded in on itself; this is a paper-locked letter. If you don’t know how it's folded, you’ll destroy the text inside. It’s another ritual to help break the curse. The archivist files it with hope that one witch will decipher the message. :: 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: At the heart of a twisting labyrinth under the false moon sits imprisoned one cursed witch, their power stolen by a twisted god. You can visit this chained creature, marvel at them, spectate at the punishment for their hubris. Small words drip from their lips. ::

Our anthology call-out for writers in the North of England is open. We're delighted to have received a few submissions already! There's plenty of time to submit until the deadline at the end of September, so get scribbling - we'd love to read your words.

I only bring it up because their riddles are of coins, of wands. You taught me not to ignore coincidence. Here we stand, Wands with Coins. Perhaps there's something in their cursed fever dreams? :: She holds her tongue further, awaiting validation. ::

I heard two witches speak stories into the world recently. They carry the curse we fight against, and they've been speaking in riddles, fairy tales only. Each talked of witches and their trials. Witches of different worlds. :: She sneaks a glance at her mother. Is this the right way? ::

:: The Princess of Wands points to the notation her brother uncovers, tracing her five fingers along the knotwork. :: I know of a gate with five entrances. The Oracle referenced it. I should follow that. :: She points a mental lance at her brother. :: Information is more use in relation, to me.

There are so many clues going on. This little exchange between wands is thick with references. Check it out. Are you getting in to the Broken Sky game? Looking for a hint or an onramp? Ask me anything!

🧿 #BlueskyCoven THE ORACLE'S TOWER IS THICK WITH CLUES! If I solve these I'll reach the High Priestess first -- certainly before YOU -- and then I'll rule this place!

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar The war is in earnest now. Each side marshals its forces and sets loose arrows against each other. When they fall, blood will spill. Where they fall, bodies will lay. Who is ascendant? Power through prosperity or knowledge through wealth? Which do you wan tot see?

🧿 #BlueskyCoven THE ORACLE'S TOWER IS THICK WITH CLUES! If I solve these I'll reach the High Priestess first -- certainly before YOU -- and then I'll rule this place!

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar Curse that Oracle, spewing prophecy and divinations to give the little witches scraps of hope. She's the gateway to the High Priestess. Once we have her we'll be able to see everything and control the magic of this place. The Oracle. We have to do something about her.

🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: Over and over again, they replay the moment of capture in their mind, as if hoping that the retelling might change the outcome. :: The longer they remain trapped within themself, the more their anger directs inwards for allowing themself to be trapped in the first place. :: 💠

Another vote! It seems like one of the princes killed another and now the queens argue. What happens next? I need your vote!

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar :: The richly clad Queen of Pentacles stands in front of the assembled queens, the ledger open before her. :: Sisters in station. I weep to strike a name from the annals of our noble order so long before his due. The accounts will reflect this great loss.

Hello, spectator. If you've come this far you know where it will go. In the dark of night, in a lonely hall, one of these queens will fall. You tell me who.

The Tarot War has already claimed a Prince. Will a Queen follow?

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar How utterly delightful. Sorry! I mean tragic. One of these Queens will not walk away. This is out of my hands, this peace will shatter. But I can direct the wrath in one direction. Which queen deserves her satisfaction least? ⚔️ Sword 🍷 Cup 💰 Coin ✨ Wand Who will die?

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar Watch now. Four queens bound by ancient law stand around the slab on which a princely body lays, bereft of life. If these matriarchs can reach a common voice, my work will fail. I can’t let that happen. If they fall to war, I'll be one step closer to the High Priestess.

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar If I’ve played my cards right, this blood spilled will crack these lands open. One will dominate and through them, I’ll reach the High Priestess and her wellspring of magic. Now the Queens meet, but not in friendship. Their alliance is as stable as a house of cards.

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar In an hour, blade strikes true or magic burns deep. One of these young scions will see their bright future cut short. The other, thrust into war. ⚔️ Prince of Swords 🛡️ or ✨ Prince of Wands 🔥 You tell me who to spare. 💠

#BlueskyCoven :: Hearing the call sent by his counterpart in the other demon's cohort, the young man's form shudders into and out of coherence, sometimes solid, sometimes oozing infernal sludge. :: Master! @wederrakeep.bsky.social, I found her! The High Priestess is here! 🧿

And Oh gods, I forgot one other thing. Hello #BrokenskyCoven. Two princes are fighting! The demon possessing me is going to choose which one to spare and which one to kill, tomorrow. I NEED YOUR VOITES. Read the tragedy and tell me whose blood to spill - Swords or Wands: bsky.app/profile/wede...

I'm looking for potential #ttrpg panelists discussing Play to Lose games and doomed heroes 💔 Let me know if there's someone with relevant experience you'd love to hear discuss this! Priority to POC and marginalized genders 💚

Hey folks. #BlueskyCoven This long thread will be the only post I make breaking the fourth wall, but it's important. I just got out of back to back meetings with a bunch of these wonderful people I've been collaborating with, and then I caught the news here in the U.S. 1/

I mean, I did use to dance around homemade bonfires as a kid... Wands is a good option. Just saying. 😏